Post by Isabella O'Malley on Aug 25, 2012 20:04:19 GMT -5
| [atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 460px; background-image: url(http://i44.tinypic.com/34fb0ns.jpg);-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: 4px ridge #9c5f5b, bTable][tr][cs=2] ZOË OLIVIA YATES. 16. STUDENT. DORIANA AGACINSKA. | |
[rs=2] | Zoë Olivia Yates is the first born daughter of Calvin and Tina Yates and the older sister to Addison Yates. Their family isn't very typical - though they are a typical hippie family. Zoë's parents are both musicians, though they're both getting older and she thinks they should think about retirement soon. They're also muggles and while they do have some magical people in their family, most of them remain muggles. Zoë was only 14 months old when her younger sister was born. Because of this, they're close, but they also have a complex relationship. Zoë was a quiet and withdrawn child to begin with, so her parents coddled her - and it got worse when she started to show signs of magic. They didn't see it as a gift, like some other people might. While Zoë's first signs of magic appeared very early, the rest of her development lacked. She didn't speak until she was about two years old, following her younger sister's lead. She had trouble learning to talk, and even at such a young age, she didn't really care to talk. She preferred Addison to do the talking for her. As the girls grew up, Zoë always let Addison be first in whatever they did. Their roles were reversed; instead of the big sister looking after the little sister, it was the opposite. But it worked. Zoë just seemed like a very laid back, undisturbed little girl and everyone else seemed to go with the flow. Zoë did most of her talking with her sister; with Addison, she was most animated. Even around their parents she'd suddenly go shy and quiet, looking to her sister for answers. But, together, she was a completely different person. There came a point in time when school became an issue. Their parents wanted Zoë to be home-schooled, because of her "special needs", and they were prepared to send Addison off to regular school. As it turned out, wherever the one went, the other went as well. They were mostly home-schooled, but occasionally they went to muggle school. Zoë hated going. She didn't like the classrooms or the desks or how loud it got sometimes. She thought the rooms smelled funny, too. She's very intellectual, however, but it was the socializing she had trouble with. In the muggle schools, Zoë was more often than not being made fun of. If she refused to speak, the other kids laughed at her. If she didn't laugh at a joke everyone else found funny, the other kids called her "stupid" or "boring". They always had something mean to say to her, and no one wanted to be her friend - no one but Addison. When the girls were taught at home, Zoë felt much more at ease. She did feel bad for Addison, though - she knew that her sister liked to interact with kids her age. But Addison was like Mary and Zoë was like the lamb - everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. What changed the girls' relationship was when Zoë went away to Hogwarts and Addison, no matter how badly she acted, had to stay behind. It was scary for Zoë to be at a strange school, with strange people, and doing strange things. She didn't feel as though she fit in very well with her housemates - then again, she never fit in anywhere. She didn't make many (if any) friends her first year at Hogwarts. She mostly kept to herself, wishing that Addison was there with her to make everything better. Zoë really hated Charms, DADA and Transfiguration. She didn't like to talk - not even when saying simple spells. But she was forced and she eventually grew to hate the sound of her voice. She imaged everyone making fun of her as she tried to spew out a spell, snickering and whispering jokes to each other. Her faces always flushed when she did spells - partly from anger and partly from embarrassment. She learned early on how to preform nonverbal spells, but her professors encouraged her to speak them instead - to use her "pretty voice." When the holidays rolled around, Zoë was more than glad to be going home. She could see Addison again and they could have a lot of fun. But the holidays always seemed to fly by, which was something that depressed Zoë. Soon enough (or what was an eternity to her), her first year of Hogwarts came to an end and she went home. The year apart from Addison had, as mentioned before, caused a small crack in the sister's relationship. They were no longer as close, no matter how hard Zoë tried to be. But Addison had grown up in the last year and Zoë felt that she'd taking four steps back. It wasn't a very good feeling. She began to paint and draw to express her emotions, considering that she had trouble vocalizing them. A seed was planted that summer; she worried endlessly that Addison was going to ignore her when they were both in school, because she was such a freak. They both went off to Hogwarts that autumn and Zoë was a bundle of nerves. She desperately wanted to be in the same house as Addison, and she was utterly crushed (and scared) when that did not happen. But she also found herself very angry because she still had no friends aside from Addison and yet her sister seemed to being well already and they hadn't even been gone for 24 hours yet. Zoë knows that her sister loves her, but sometimes she gets insanely jealous of her little sister, who is just so cool and sure of herself. Nevertheless, Zoë tried harder to make friends that year. She watched Addison (in the Great Hall, the corridors, the library) and tried to do what her sister did. Sometimes she got laughed at, other times she felt people took pity on her and were only nice to her because of that. She wanted to find one other person who liked her the way Addison did. Maybe then she wouldn't feel so alone. The years at Hogwarts have bee rough for Zoë. She interacts when she can, but she usually ends up saying something stupid or stuttering, in which case she runs off. Over the years, she's tried to model herself after her sister, but it never works out. She is her own person. She's the girl who crushes on fictional guys, who pretends she lives in faraway worlds like Terabithia or Neverland or Narnia, who prefers learning to getting drunk. She likes music that speaks to her soul and she enjoys drawing & painting more than she can describe. She has yet to find someone even remotely similar to herself. Zoë tries, but she always seems to fail. She tries to find the good in everything, she tries to end everyday on a good note, but in the end... she feels how she feels, and that's that. |
hanna. still 22. 11 years. -5 GMT. |
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